"A new day is dawning in our country," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday during a state address that was videotaped from a remote location on the island of Ithaca, a day after Greece exited the memoranda.

"Ithaca symbolizes the return, the end, the relief," the mayor of Ithaki, Dionysis Stanitsas, said in a statement to radio station Praktoreio 104.9 FM on Tuesday.

 We received a dramatic economic situation, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday during the off the agenda debate at the parliament plenum on the economy.